African Origin of Modern Humans in East Asia: A Tale of 12,000 Y Chromosomes
- 11 May 2001
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 292 (5519) , 1151-1153
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1060011
Abstract
To test the hypotheses of modern human origin in East Asia, we sampled 12,127 male individuals from 163 populations and typed for three Y chromosome biallelic markers (YAP, M89, and M130). All the individuals carried a mutation at one of the three sites. These three mutations (YAP+, M89T, and M130T) coalesce to another mutation (M168T), which originated in Africa about 35,000 to 89,000 years ago. Therefore, the data do not support even a minimal in situ hominid contribution in the origin of anatomically modern humans in East Asia.Keywords
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